I'm interested in the truck. I don't think I've seem one painted exactly like it. It may be a 50s vintage TV truck or a radio truck. I wonder if the finer lettering says "television" or "network" or something else.

Well, that is really interesting. It's NBC, not from a particular station, an older monochrome truck, and apparently in use, not just a prop for a colorcast. The way RCA/NBC were promoting color at the Fair, this boggles my mind.

With the rain, could it be opening day?

Edit: it occurs to me that if this is opening day, all the color trucks could have been tied up at the opening ceremonies.

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Thanks, Bill, for clearing up that mystery. The knowledge you guys have of the Fair is impressive---nay, astounding! Having donated all of my photos, I have finally found time to read from the many past postings, and am benefitting from a major improvement in my conception of the Fair, plus getting the answer to questions that have laid dormant in my mind for decades (even questions I didn't know I had!).

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The whole time I was wondering why you said Von Roll, thinking you were referring to the tv crew down below in some obscure reference I didn't know. The conversation that it stirred up didn't help either.

The name caught my eye today on the cable car. Whoops, and how fun to learn what you meant!.

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Albert said it rained most of the day during final videotaping for NBC's Opening Night Special, but he confirmed that the Edwin Newman special was filmed instead of videotaping, and implied that it did not rain during that filming.